November 4,2025 Meeting Minutes

                                                Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

           November 4,2025

Announcements

Theresa welcomed our guests: Sean, an experienced toastmaster from a prior club, and Jordan.

 

Our Toastmaster was Deanna with the theme. “The Cars We Drive”

 

Our Acting  Sergeant at Arms Deanna called our meeting to order.

Our Acting VPE was Deanna next week’s schedule and our education minute. Deanna talked about an article in Toastmaster's Magazine which highlighted this year’s World Series of Public Speaking. The Convention took place in Philadelphia with the theme of “Focus on Your Next Move.”

Our President Theresa opened our meeting.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Theresa

Word of the day was Drive

Ah Counter – Theresa

Timer - Sean

General Evaluator – Round Robin Evaluation

 

Our 1st  Speaker was Bill with “Refrigerator Fun Take 2”  Engaging Humor level 1 Evaluation and Feedback

Our 2nd Speaker was Theresa with “Launching the Queen’s Priest” Presentation Mastery level 3 Inspirational Speech

 

Our Evaluator for Bill’s speech was Warren

Our Evaluator for Theresa’s speech was Robert

Our Table Topics Master was Lynne

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were, Warren, Jordan, Sean and Robert

 

 

Members in Attendance were Katie, Theresa, Lynne, Warren, Bill, Deanna,

Guests in Attendance Jordan Demielo and Sean

Motion to Adjourn: Bill    Second: Robert

 

October 28,2025 Meeting Minutes

 

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

October 28,2025

 

Announcements:

 

We had a number guests at this Halloween Extravaganza & Theresa

Welcomed  guests: Julie, Jordan, Jatlin, Diane, Dave and Ram

 

Our Toastmaster was Kelly with the theme. Halloween Extravaganza

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie called our meeting to order.

 

Our President Theresa opened our meeting.

Our VPE: Nancy scheduled meeting roles and advised the D2 director, Karin Lezon has office hours:  https://d2tm.org/event/pathways-office-hour-5/

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Katie

Word of the day was Disguise

Ah Counter – Katie

Timer - Lynne

General Evaluator – Nancy

 

Our speaker was Bill with “Refrigerator Fun”

Our Evaluator was Theresa.

Our Table Topics Master was Deanna.

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Kerry, Julie, Chirag, Jordan, Justin, and Ram

 

Members in Attendance were Kerry, Chirag, Nancy, Kelly, Bill, Maria, Katie, Theresa, Deanna, Lynne, Justin

 

Guests in Attendance Julie Hutton, Jordan Demielo, Jatlin Manne, Diane & Dave Fallucca, and Ram

Motion to Adjourn: Katie    Second: Deanna

 

October 21, 2025 Meeting Minutes

 Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

October 21,2025

 

 

Our President Pro Tem Lynne opened our meeting.

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie  called our meeting to order.

 

Our VPE, Nancy, filled roles for the next meeting and gave our Learning Moment.   

The Learning Moment  was a summary of the Survey conducted by our VPM Maria, to determine members' opinions about whether we should change our club meeting structure to include In Person/ Hybrid meetings.  The overall opinion is that we stay with our current plan of one In Person meeting a month with the rest of the month's meetings on Zoom.  

 

Our Toastmaster was Nancy with the theme. “Haiku”

 

 

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Kelly

Word of the day was Wabi-sabi — beauty in imperfection

Ah Counter – Kerry

Timer - Lynne

General Evaluator – Maria

 

Our  1st Speaker was Chirag with “My Graveyard”

Our 2nd Speaker was Turtle  with “Thank You and You, and You”

Our Evaluator for Chirag's speech was Deanna

Our Evaluator for Turtle’s speech was Robert

Our Table Topics Master was Maria

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Kerry, Katie and Casey

 

 

Members in Attendance were Nancy, Lynne, Turtle, Katie, Deanna, Kelly, Kerry, Chirag, Maria and Robert

Guests in Attendance:  Are (Arezoo Rustami), Casey and Mohamed Ghoneim 

Motion to Adjourn: Robert   Second: Katie

 

October 14, 2025 Officer's Meeting

Public Speaking Northwest

                                                        Officers Meeting

                                                           Oct 14, 2025

I. Opening

• Welcome
• Approve September 2025 Meeting Minutes,  unanimously approved 

II. Officer Reports   See page 2

III. Ongoing/Old Business

Survey Results---Maria reviewed the survey sent to members.  She got 20 survey responses. 14 of the 20 were not in favor of going to hybrid meetings. Nancy will explain the details of this graph at our next meeting in her education minute.  The main takeaway is that the majority of club members prefer our present format with 1 in person and 3 zoom meetings per month.

 

 

Maria related more survey  results including that members would like to see the following topics discussed:  Body language communications, Micro-expressions communication, Club contests, Effective evaluations, Zoom usage—slides & images, Debate without argument, Podcast Interviewing.

Other Findings About PUBLIC SPEAKING NORTHWEST from the survey;

 

IV. New Business

Kelly proposed that during our Halloween meeting (10/28) we encourage participation via fun contests.  She proposed that we have 2 prizes:  one for best costume and one prize for a game, which she will create, (such as guess how many candy corns are in this jar?)  Deanna shared that we had the money to offer $20 in value for each prize, most likely gift cards, probably Amazon. A motion was made, 2nd We voted unanimously to proceed.

 

Officer Reports

VP Education/ Webmaster: Nancy

Webmaster: All is running well with FreeToastHost. Kelly is doing an amazing job.

VPE: 

1. TI plans to make changes to Pathways sometime in October. These will incorporate various things from our manual system. Meeting roles will be emphasized. Also, club leadership speeches will be added to levels 4, 5, & 6.

 

2. According to the DPR (attached and appended), we have 3 goals met. It reflects that all of us have been trained. 

 

3. Club Calendar:

 

October	End of Oct	Halloween Party
November	Officer's Meeting	Discuss Officer Election
December	Mid-December	Club Officer Election
	End of December	Club Officer List Deadline
	No Meeting	Between Christmas & New Year

 

VP Membership: Maria

Happy 9 years with PSNW to Nancy

 

New Members	0
Inquiries	2
Mtg Visitors	5
Member removals	3

 

Officially removed in September was Mara, Adriana, Georgina who indicated they were not renewing.

 

October will include Nadine, do we know about Nitin and Sonal? They are the only 2 who have not renewed.

 

VP Public Relations: Kelly

All is well in VPPR land.

 

• We had a wonderful SPEAK-A-THON. Deanna took first place while TK and Marcus tied for second. Deanna has first right of refusal to move on to the International Speech Contest or D2 Humorous Contest. Brava, Deanna!
• Halloween Party: I would like to bring forward a motion to give away a few online prizes for the Halloween party. If Deanna would please propose a fair amount based on club funds, that would be great.
• Social Media:
• YouTube - 48 subscribers•406 videos
• Facebook – 478 Followers

Treasurer: Deanna

1.    TI name badges (magnet style) have been ordered. I will distribute them when they arrive

2.    Justin Humke renewed on 10/10/25.

3.    Reminder: new member joining fee is now $25 (instead of $22)

4.    The PSNW bank account balance is $1318.37 on 10/13/25.

Secretary/Scribe: Bill

 I have nothing new to report from the scribe department. 

 

Sergeant at Arms: Katie

All is well.

 

President: Theresa

All is well. Great job, team!

Announcements:

Theresa reiterated a point made earlier that officer elections were coming up, and we should think about candidates. We will discuss this further at our November meeting.  Katie mentioned that she would stay in her present position for the foreseeable future as long as we continued our present meeting format. This being only 1 in person meeting per month.  Officer candidate list is due at the end of December.

Motion to Adjourn;  Kelly  2nd Bill

October 14,2025 Meeting Minutes

 Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

October 14,2025

 

 

 

Our Toastmaster was TK with the theme. “Indigenous People's Day”

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie  called our meeting to order.

 

Our President Theresa opened our meeting.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Deanna

Word of the day was Feather

Ah Counter – Deanna

Timer - Robert

General Evaluator – Lynne

 

Our  1st Speaker was Kelly with “Bloody Barbie”

Our 2nd Speaker was Maria with “Leveling UP”

Our Evaluator for Kelly’s speech was Bill

Our Evaluator for Maria’s speech was Theresa

Our Table Topics Master was Katie

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Jordan, David, Theresa, Chirag, Lynne

 

 

Members in Attendance were Nancy, Kelly, Katie, TK, Robert, Lynne, Theresa, Maria, Deanna, Bill, Chirag

Guests in Attendance David Smith, Jordan Demiero, Radhika Bhartia

 

Motion to Adjourn: Deanna    Second: Katie